Posted on 11/13/2015 7:21:08 AM PST by jimbo123
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who received widespread praise for his Tuesday debate performance in which he slammed the media for its biased coverage of immigration, continued his verbal broadside against pro-amnesty special interests on today's program of the Laura Ingraham Show.
In perhaps his most detailed comments to date criticizing donor-class favorite Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ted Cruz gave a crushing assessment of Rubio's involvement in co-authoring the La Raza-backed Gang of Eight bill. Cruz outlined Rubio's coordinated effort with Chuck Schumer to sabotage conservative efforts to add popular amendments to the Obama-championed measure:
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Cruz told Ingraham that while the American people expressed their vociferous opposition to Rubio's immigration bill, Rubio ignored their concerns and fought "tooth and nail" to push amnesty and immigration expansions upon the unwilling electorate. Cruz explained that even though "The American people quite reasonably said, 'No" to the Gang of Eight's plan, Rubio and his fellow Gang of Eight colleagues continued to push the amnesty bill through Congress:
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And you must parse what Cruz is saying now. Has Cruz said we must deport all the illegal aliens or that we need to construct a fence/wall/physical barrier along the southern border? Trump has produced a detailed position paper on immigration. Cruz has not.
Still, Trump has apparently changed on this issue, yet that doesn't bother you a bit?
“What I find intriguing is the coordinated effort by conservative media to not allow Rubio to redefine himself.”
Rubio established his pro-Amnesty record back when he was the leader of the Florida House.
Rubio didn’t first start putting illegal aliens ahead of Americans with the Gang of Eight, he had been doing it for years. He would have to whitewash his entire past in order to “redefine” himself.
Trump has turned to Jeff Sessions for advice and counsel on the issue and the product was the best position paper on immigration ever offered by a Presidential candidate. I can only hope that Trump abides by his promises if he gets into the WH. Except for Santorum who has no chance, there is no other candidate who comes even close to Trump on the issue, which I consider the defining issue of our time. If we don't turn things around on immigration, everything else is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Rubio is such a big, slow moving target here. He’s going to go down in flames. The GOPe tried to protect him after the Gang of Eight fiasco by pulling him from the public eye immediately, but it’s far too late for him.
More than anything, I love what he's done to the race, just worry about being bit in the rear end by this all.
We have trusted the GOP to do something about a host of issues including immigration, Obamacare, the debt, etc. They have not kept their promises. It is time to see if someone who is not part of the political class can clean the Augean stables. Special interests own both parties. The big loser is the American people.
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